House of Cards

I just finished reading the book House Of Cards: How Wall Street’s Gamblers Broke Capitalism by William D. Cohan. It’s basically the a fairly good back story on how Bear Stearns went under. Even though in another life I actually worked in the brokerage industry as a NASD Series 7 Registered Representative and briefly worked …

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PokerTracker for the Mac – First Look

A buddy of mine, Mike, pinged me to give me a sneak peek at the possibility of PokerTracker coming to the Mac platform. As someone who has gone almost completely Mac in my personal affairs this is exciting. PokerTracker posted a teaser screen shot on 2+2.

Elements of Poker, The Rooster, DoingBots, and a Dead Guy

I just got done reading Elements of Poker by Tommy Angelo and was really very impressed. I’m somewhat famous for saying that nothing new gets written about poker no matter how many books are published but this is a rare exception. I mean, how many poker books talk about meditation and pranayama type breathing exercises? …

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The-Poker-Shark.com Scam

I’m in a scammer-busting mood today. I ran across The-Poker-Shark.com website the other day. This one was almost comical. Instead of analyzing the hype page line by line, I thought it would be interesting to examine the disclaimer page and compare it to what is said on the hype page. The-Poker-Shark.com is for entertainment and …

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